2019-04-26 featured press

Gstaad Digital Festival – Philippe Jaroussky spricht über den Probeprozess

2019-04-26, Gstaad Digital Festival, by N. N.

«Es gibt nicht DIE perfekte Art, ein Stück zu spielen.»
Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky spricht übers Proben […]

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2019-04-09 featured press

2019-04-09, Duke University Libraries, by Sarah Griffin

Check out our very own “staff picks”:
Philippe Jaroussky and Artaserse, The Handel Album

French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky is among the most famous countertenors in the world right now, and it’s a voice range that has attracted growing interest in recent years. The high range of the countertenor voice and the manner in which its unusual qualities are produced results in a sound that has often been described as unearthly – it’s also a powerful and flexible voice type, able to handle music of stunning virtuosity and highly expressive pathos. […]

-Laura Williams, Head Librarian, Music Library

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2019-04-07 featured press

Warner Classics – Philippe Jaroussky sings Idraspe’s Lamento from Cavalli: Erismena (with the Ensemble Artaserse)

2019-04-07, Warner Classics on Youtube, by N. N.

Francesco Cavalli, one of the most influential composers in operatic history, wrote operas notable for their variety of tone, combining noble, mythical, or tragic drama with teasing or bawdy comedy. […]

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2019-03-30 featured press

wfmt – Ombra mai fu: Cavalli Opera Arias – Philippe Jaroussky

2019-03-30, wfmt, by Lisa Flynn

Ombra mai fu: Cavalli Opera Arias – Philippe Jaroussky
March 30, 2019, 9:00 am

Francesco Cavalli (1602–76) is an important figure in the history of opera and his works, which first experienced a revival in the 1960s, have been growing in currency in recent years. The most prominent successor to Monteverdi, Cavalli was active in Venice at a time when opera was moving out of aristocratic palaces and into public theaters. […]

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2019-03-25 featured press

Operawire – Jonas Kaufmann, Elīna Garanča & Philippe Jaroussky Headline Théâtre Champs-Élysée’s 2019-20 Season

2020-03-23, Operawire, by Francisco Salazar

Performance Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Philippe Jaroussky performs a recital of Schubert lieder with pianist Jérôme Ducros.

Performance Date: Jan. 24, 2020 […]

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2021-03-08_2 featured press

iClassical – Sparkling performances of Cavalli Opera Arias from Jaroussky

2019-03-08, iclassical.co.uk, by N. N.

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This is a wonderful programme of fine singing and music making that will give lasting listening pleasure to lovers of baroque opera and the counter-tenor voice. For fans of Philippe Jaroussky this will be an essential addition to the growing collection of fine discs from this award-winning baroque singer. Vinyl fans should note that Warner have also made this release available on an LP.

iClassical rating: 4 1/2 out of 5 stars

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2019-03-08_2-featured

iclassical – Sparkling performances of Cavalli Opera Arias from Jaroussky

2019-03-2019, iclassic, by John T 

This is a hugely enjoyable collection of opera arias by the seventeenth-century Italian composer Francesco Cavalli sweetly sung by the forty-year-old French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky.

This disc provides just over an hour’s worth of musical pleasure as Jaroussky shows us that he has lost none of his vocal suppleness nor his beautiful silvery tone. […]

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2018-10-29_02 featured press

Bachtrack – Echoes in the comfort zone: Saariaho’s Only the Sound Remains at the Teatro Real

2018-10-29, Bachtrack, by Fernando Remiro

When L’Amour de loin premièred at the Salzburg Festival in 2000, Kaija Saariaho opened a new century of opera with her brave synthesis of Wagner’s and Debussy’s confronted myths of separation, impossible love and nocturnal yearning. Almost two decades later, her fourth opera comes as a pleasant confirmation of a brilliant compositional style but fails to take a step further along that aesthetic path.

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